Faith, Hope & Crafts

Hello Friends  Happy Friday!!  I am back with a wee reminder for the Craft Stamper challenge.  Our theme this month is Let's Get Inky.   We want to see you using different colours or types of ink on your project.   I used a few different distress inks on my card today.  I used Unity Stamps from these two kits   Without Fear, Without Limits   &  Walk With Your Heart . We have a great prize up for grabs from PaperArtsy 5 bottles of infusions.  They look fab don't they I need to get my hands on these powders.   All of the details can be found on the  Craft Stamper Blog . Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend!  Mandi xox

Hello Friends  Welcome to another new Take It, Make It challenge from  Craft Stamper .  This month we have a lets get inky challenge for you!   This month we want to see you use more than one type or colour of ink on your project.   I went with three different distress inks on my card. Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber & Seedless Preserves. I smooshed them on my craft sheet and spritzed with water to create this background.  I then added some white acrylic paint on top for some more dimension.  The stamps I used are from the Unity  Without Fear Without Limits  Kit of the month.   Our prize this month is from PaperArtsy they are giving one lucky winner 5 bottles of infusions. They are   Lemoncello, Black Currant, A Bit Jaded, Are You Cerice and Emerald Isle.    This is the lucky prize the winner will receive. This is a colour chart of the full range of colours available. Remember we also have a second winner that will be chosen

Hello Friends    I thought I would come and give you all a wee life update. My life has been crazy over these last few months. In the last year I have lived in New York, Maine, Scotland (my home) and Ireland!!  It has been a roller coaster ride with a lot of ups and downs. I lived in the USA with my husband but over the last few years I got very homesick and we both decided we wanted to move back home an be closer to my family. We have been trying to get my husband over to live  for the last 4 years but the immigration rules here are crazy and the financial requirements are difficult to meet.  So at the beginning of the year  we decided to move to Ireland since the immigration rules are more relaxed hoping it would be the next best thing to being home. But it never worked out! There job market is scarce and there is also a huge housing shortage. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for us! Our money was running out fast so we had to come back to Scotland. My husband could